The Abject Utopian

by Matthew Serediuk

What would be your perfect world? For some the answer is simple, for other’s it’s a quandary. Once there were countless alternate realties, stretching across the breadth of human imagination; a perfect fit for every imperfect vision of the world. But now, as the universe reaches its climactic zenith there remains just 77, and of that number only nine are afforded official ‘utopian’ designation. The once learned and respected organisation responsible for these specific designations has grown bloated and corrupted. The tenth world they intend to proclaim as a ‘functional utopia’ is paying for the privilege; a perversion to the founding ideals, and a promise of dire things for every innocent on every remaining world. Only dissension from within can lay waste to these ill gotten plans but the odds are heavily stacked against—both professionally and personally—for the one woman whom hope falls solely upon.

It’s a story in three telling what is, what was and what’s to come. It’s a story of three the aggressor, the repressor and the transgressor. It’s a story about three the world of the living, the world of the long dead and the world about to die. It’s a story in three it exists in honesty, it exists in biography and it never existed to begin with. It's a story about love, a story about loss and a story about life itself.

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Published June 1, 2018